Colorado Public Radio Staff

Researchers in southwestern Colorado are hoping to breed elk that are genetically resistant to chronic wasting disease.

Sam Kashner was the first student to attend the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, part of Boulder’s Naropa Institute, in 1976.

For years, metro area cities have competed for retail projects, but now Aurora and Denver have joined forces on a development called HighPointe.

Denver’s Stephen White talks about his book, Blinded, which features a Boulder therapist. White practiced clinical psychology for 15 years before writing a mystery novel that became a surprise bestseller.

Fort Collins-based Blue Sun Biodesel is trying to convince Colorado farmers to grow mustard seed crops for conversion into fuel.

Hospice of Metro Denver has received a $500,000 grant from the federal Health and Human Services Agency for an institute to assist hospital staff in supporting terminally ill patients. Dr.

Historian Silvia Pettem talks about persuading the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office to reopen an investigation into a murder of an unknown young woman in 1954.

A day with Democratic Representative Alice Madden of Boulder, second in a series that looks at what it’s like to be a Colorado lawmaker.

Brook Le Van, director of the non-profit group Sustainable Settings, talks about a project to turn a 1893 Victorian home near Carbondale into a national model for environmentally sustainable design.

Denver Art Museum Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg talks about the museum’s acquisition of a world-class collection of contemporary Native American art.

A new lawsuit claims that people who lived in western Colorado uranium mining towns decades ago were made sick and even killed by radiation exposure in the community.

Colorado’s state quarter will be released in 2006, and Governor Owens has asked state residents to submit ideas to a recently formed advisory commission.

Alex Henvey, reader in the Colorado House of Representatives, and Dan Goldstein, reader for the Colorado Senate, talk about their unusual jobs.

Hattie McDaniel, one of the great character actresses of American cinema, grew up in Denver and in 1939 became the first African-American to win an Academy Award.

Colorado prosecutors are urging lawmakers not to cut a program that pays for alternative sentencing and treatment for teen offenders.

Laura Carlson speaks with Boulder Democrat Jack Pommer about legislation that would make it a misdemeanor to knowingly take a photograph of a person’s “intimate parts” without their consent.